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A better than average "training film" for servicemen which has some usefull information for everyone on what to do in case of an atomic atack.

The blurb for this movie is slightly wrong; there is only one solidier (a Master Sergeant). The new recruits in the movie represent the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps (I guess the Coast Guard couldn't make it). A more likeable cast than I've seen in civilian civil defense movies.

Features some very impressive (for the time) special effects involving actual US atomic test footage edited into a tabletop model of a coastal city. Quite a suprise for a military training film from 1950. Other than that, your standard "brush the fallout off and proceed as normal." But definately not a disappointment if you're into this kind of thing. Cheery theme music, too.

lots of bonhomie guy talk. Meant for an audience of servicemen, I would imagine. Someone noted that this film has a reference to and depicts briefly a cartoon character named "Evil Eye Fleegle." Well, I googled him, and it turns out he was a villain in the comic strip L'il Abner.

Anyway, they spent some money on this film. They have a neat little tabletop model of a city, too.

A confident sargeant discusses tips for surviving a nuclear bomb attack. At one point when the sarge informs him he'd be dead if he didn't have the cover, the serviceman got uneasy, so the sarge replies "So what. .. a safe might fall on your head". An interesting reference to evil-eye fliegel (whoever he was), and very cool special f/x for the day. A couple times the sarge describes the defensive measures as being "about the same" as bomb raids in WWII. Also depictions of the enemy being subliminally called a chicken as the bomb is referred to as an "egg".

Interesting hybrid of Atomic scare film with Daddy-O lingo interspersed in. We at first view the aftereffects of Hiroshima, then in a clever twist, the film breaks! Ah, but it's a movie within a movie, something we don't see a lot in Prelinger land. While the projectionist fixes it, the team leader or whoever this guy was, lays it in to the 3 guys assembled for the film (and why were they there in the first place?). A GREAT dialogue takes place of what happens when "the egg" might fall, ("That would be some omelette!") (Curiously, there's a lot of fowl mentions in this movie too ("Your goose is cooked!"). Then it somewhat goes into standard what to do when the big one hits. There's some amazing special effects here too. I would say this is quite a notch above your normal nucular awareness film.

Just use your head and you have good chances to survive an A-bomb attack. Yeah, right. Anyway, the film is a good depiction of the thinking at the time of its making. And such good punch lines:"Just the right spot for the enemy to lay an egg... an atomic egg! What an omelette that would make!" Hilarious... You're killing me...
Something wrong with the MPEG1-version. MPEG4-256 worked OK.